An outstanding wartime drama featuring compelling lead performances from Michael Redgrave and John Mills, this box office hit co-stars Stanley Holloway, Basil Radford, Rosamund John and Douglass Montgomery. Scripted by Terence Rattigan and directed by Anthony Asquith, The Way to the Stars is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, rookie pilot Peter Penrose is assigned to serve with Flight Lt David Archdale at RAF Station Halfpenny Field. By 1942 David has become acting C.O. but Peter is beginning to show signs of combat fatigue a situation that David cannot leave unresolved. SPECIAL FEATURE: Image gallery
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s...
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Sienna Miller stars as '60s icon Edie Sedgwick in this Bohemian biopic.
Released for the first time in the UK in stunning 4K Ultra HD, experience this sweeping biographical epic like never before, with 30 minutes of deleted scenes and a limited edition poster and art card set. Denzel Washington stars in a career-best performance as Malcolm X, one of the most charismatic and divisive poilitical voices in American history. From poverty to prominence, from hustler to humanist, Malcolm X and his ideologies touched the lives of millions and continue to inspire and enlighten. The complex life of this endlessly fascinating civil rights leader is traced in magnificent detail, held together by the vision of director Spike Lee, who mastefully combines historical and contemporary perspectives to create one of the most ambitious, expansive, and acclaimed biographical dramas of all time.
Vittorio De Sica's (Bicycle Thieves) award-winning masterpiece Miracle in Milan is one of the watershed films of the Italian cinema renaissance. Once upon a time an old woman discovered a young child in her cabbage patch. She cared for him until her death at which time the boy was placed into an orphanage. When the child is released from the orphanage he inspires shantytown squatters to improve their huts and enjoy the world. But as they begin to rebuild the squat
Nicholas Laughland's TV adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Let the BBC transport you back to the decadent aristocratic drawing rooms of 1890's England. Lovingly restored the four plays in this collection feature a who's who of great actors of the British stage & screen; including stars like Sir John Gielgud Joan Plowright Jeremy Brett Susan Hampshire Margaret Leighton and Gemma Jones. This collection comprises dramatisations of 'The Importance Of Being Earnest' 'An Ideal Husband' 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' and 'Lady Windermere's Fa
Paul Schrader's dazzlingly unconventional biopic, with a celebrated score by Philip Glass. In this visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Vengeance Is Mine's KEN OGATA), PAUL SCHRADER (American Gigolo) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima's last day, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's life as well as by gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by JOHN BAILEY, exquisite sets and costumes by EIKO ISHIOKA, and unforgettable, highly influential score by PHILIP GLASS, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right. Features: DIRECTORAPPROVED BLURAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer of the director's cut, supervised and approved by director Paul Schrader and cinematographer John Bailey, with 2.0 surround DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul Interviews from 2007 and 2008 with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka Interviews from 2008 with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie Audio interview from 2008 with coscreenwriter Chieko Schrader Interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima, a 55minute documentary from 1985 about the author Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film's censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka's sets
From acclaimed director Roman Polanski and resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and intriguing political thriller charts one man's determination to discover the truth and to tell it, if necessary, from beyond the grave.
Presented on Blu-ray for the first time, Mike Leigh followed up Secrets & Lies with Career Girls, a comic masterpiece about youth, sex, and memory. Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) and Annie (Lynda Steadman) were inseparable when they shared an apartment, years ago. Now, they are reunited for one weekend on the town. As they encounter several people with whom they were students in London in the mid-1980s, these 'Career Girls' awaken their memories - of loves lost and old rivalries - that builds a picture of just how they have changed in the intervening years. Special Features Created from the newly Restored Director-Approved 4k Digital Transfer, supervised by Cinematographer Dick Pope Two newly remastered short films directed by Mike Leigh: The Short & Curlies - starring Alison Steadman and David Thewlis (1987, 18 mins) and A Sense of History - starring Jim Broadbent (1992, 26 mins) and not previously available in the UK
After learning of apartheid's true horrors through the eyes of activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington) editor Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) discovers that his friend has been silenced by the police. Determined not to let Biko's message go unheard Woods undertakes a perilous quest to escape South Africa and bring Biko's remarkable tale of courage to the world. This riveting and true story directed by Richard Attenborough offers a stirring account of man at his most evil and most hero
Golden Globe®-winner Paul Giamatti leads this powerful story of a rebellious student, a notoriously disliked professor, and the school's head chef forming an unlikely bond, as they are the only ones left on-campus for Christmas break, helping one another understand that they are not beholden to their past.Directed by Alexander Payne & Starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dustin Tucker, Bill Mootos.
Live and Let Die - Roger Moore finds himself immersed in the world of heroin, voodoo and black magic in his debut as Bond. The Man with The Golden Gun - Bond is assigned to retrieve a top secret solar power converter, but finds himself the target of the world's greatest professional assassin. The Spy Who Loved Me - Britain and Russia both send their best agents to negotiate for a tracking system that has lost them each a nuclear submarine. Moonraker - When a Moonraker space shuttle disappears the chase leads Bond into outer space. For Your Eyes Only - In the race to beat the Russians to a missing communications device Bond finds himself involved with the Greek underworld. Octopussy - Stolen art treasures lead to a plan that will see Europe fall to a Russian invasion unless Bond can stop it in time A View To A Kill - In pursuit of new computer super chips, Bond uncovers a plan which could destroy Silicon Valley and the West's computer industries.
Mock-gothic children's drama set in Victorian England based on the novel by Joan Aiken. Bonnie (Emily Hudson) and her cousin Sylvia (Aleks Darowska) are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel abroad with only the servants and the prowling wolves for company. Things get even worse for the girls when evil-looking governess Miss Slighcarp (Stephanie Beacham) mysteriously turns up at the Hall bearing news that Lord and Lady Willoughby have gone missing overseas and that she will henceforth be in charge of the house and the children's education.
When you've grown up feeling ashamed of yourself, it's sometimes hard to believe you deserve love,An extraordinary queer performance artist and his partner Andy begin their journey into adoption,They want a family more than anything, but it brings up challenges from their own past.
Nebraska Police Officer Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) accepts a UN peacekeeping job working on behalf of the UN. She arrives in post-war Bosnia and finds chaos and disorder against a backdrop simmering of cultural tensions.
Award-winning, investigative reporter, Lee Strobel, is exactly where he wants to be in his career: enjoying a recent promotion to legal editor at the Chicago Tribune. Unfortunately, life at home is not such smooth sailing, as Lee struggles to understand and accept his wife Leslie's sudden newfound faith. Utilising his journalistic and legal training, Lee decides to try and disprove the claims of Christianity in order to save his crumbling marriage, pitting his resolute atheism against Leslie's growing faith. Chasing down the biggest story of his career, Lee comes face-to-face with unexpected results that could change everything he knows to be true.
On a rainy night in 1946 novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) has a meeting with Henry Miles (Stephen Rea) husband of his ex-mistress Sarah (Julianne Moore) who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled as he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed. As the investigation progresses Bendrix relives his passionate memories of their affair during The Blitz in London. He discovers her diary and reads her account of the affair. It is as different from his as night is from day. He re-enters her life and confronts once more the consuming love they had for each other and the reason for its annihilation
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